Read that thing I posted about the flight instructor's experience in
Korea, and the more general statement that thousands of hours of
"flight" time might be a small fraction of actual "flying" time. Not
that sitting with your hand on the stick for 12 hours across the ocean
would be a great bit of "flying" experience, but once you start the
descent and approach having your hands on the throttle and stick is
"flying," not turning knobs on the autopilot from 300ft at takeoff until
it actually hits ground again (one hopes, on a runway pointed in the
right direction, wheels down, greasy side down, etc.). You get a feel
for where the airplane is, what the engines are doing, what your
throttle position is, etc. (that is of course you should also be
monitoring your instruments that will tell you where you are and what
state the airplane is in).
I really wonder how much actual "flying" time these guys had, either in
that airplane or in any airplane.
--R
On 7/12/13 3:59 PM, WILTON wrote:
I think they mostly sat and dozed across the pacific - the far greater
part of it on auto-everything - autopilot, autonav, autocruise,
altitude hold, autothrottle, etc. I doubt very seriously that they
did much real flying of the aircraft on the entire trip.
Wilton
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